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Marie, that’s a really good way to put it however, sadly enough people still won’t listen to that or anything, they’ll listen to what they want to hear and ignore the rest Thanks for that though, I might use that next time I’m in one of those debates

Darren, that’s an excellent question, and so important! I recently got into a FB debate with someone who tried to argue that an unborn baby is human until it is born. I quoted Scott Klusendorf (a pro-life advocate), who wrote a small booklet called “Pro-Life 101. Some of what he wrote might answer your question: “The unborn entity is genetically distinct from its parents. Unlike sperm and ovum, the zygote possesses the active capacity to develop into an embryo, fetus, infant, child, and adult. True, sperm and egg are human cellular material, but left to themselves, they will never become a human being. But the zygote already has what is needed to function as a self-integrated human being. Hence, what actually comes into existence at conception is not a “fertilized egg” or a mere clump of human cells, but a distinct, unified, self-integrating human organism. All genetic material needed to drive the unborn’s development is there. That is to say, at no point does the distinct organism that came into being undergo a “substantial change” or change of nature. It is human and will remain so. It is an immature human, as is an infant, but a human being nonetheless. Living things do not become entirely different creatures in the process of changing their form. Rather, they develop according to a certain physical pattern precisely because of the kind of being they already are.The unborn, therefore, is not a potential human, but a human with great potential!”

However, part of the problem is by the 6th month, most people will admit it’s actually a baby. See in my Biology textbook from school it calls it an embryo until week 9, which then it’s technically a fetus, by which point a lot of people will admit it’s a human (our bio teacher touched on this too a bit and how they justify abortion in the terminology). I guess this is technically the correct terminology, but it’s this terminology that supposedly justifies abortion, so what do you say to someone who says that it isn’t a human until the 9th week or maybe even later then? How would you tell someone that it is still human in the first 8 weeks?